Bio Naomie Hatherley is a multidisciplinary artist living on Yawuru country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her practice is largely concerned with researching how systems of knowledge shape beliefs, identity and experiences of reality. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance and textiles, she plays with individual and collective methods of thinking, learning and doing to make meaning of experience. Naomie holds a Master of Visual Arts from Monash University in 2012, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) and Dip Ed from University of Western Australia. She has exhibited locally and interstate, at The Courthouse Gallery & Studio, John Curtin Gallery, Cool Change Contemporary, Moore’s Contemporary Gallery, Brunswick Street Gallery, and Heathcote Goolugalup, and has participated in Fremantle Art Centre’s Artist in Residence Program twice. She was selected for WA Regional Art Survey exhibition The Alternative Archive, toured by ART ON THE MOVE, FORM’s s 2019 Hedland Art Awards, and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery’s South West Art Now in 2010. Naomie received High Commendations at the Minnawarra Art Prize in 2010, 2011 and 2024, was awarded the Kimberley Art Prize in 2012, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2025, the Shinju Art Awards 2012, 2018 and 2020, The Jury Art Prize in 2024, and Art on the Move + North Midlands Project 8-week residency.